2002 drawings Regeneration and Medicine

I dug into some old artwork of mine today, as I wanted to make a small print version of the first one here.  Took some pictures before I put them away again.  This was from my linguistic surrealism / expressionism drawing phase that I graduated through college at NDSU (North Dakota State University) with.  Lots of ancient art inspiration and looking at picture languages of the SouthWest, Middle and South Americas.  There is also a bit of Picasso that shows up.. but that is likely because he was inspired by the same things, as well.

'Regeneration', 2002, inks 

18x24"

 'Medicine' 2002, watercolor and ink

16x22"

'Medicine' screenprint on cotton paper, 2003

three color process

about 8x8"

 

2002 Marie Winger (now Lamb)

A medieval penguin .. this looked very similar to costumes of the Black Plague Priests after I looked up people in bird masks.  However, I have no idea where the original imagery idea came from.

 

The Evolution of Cosmic Bear 2002

this tells a story about how Cosmic Bear went to the underworld and came back with his weapons.

It was a made-up mythology story for some of my drawings in my class.  There was a whole mythology of Cosmic Bear being abandoned in the Silver Forest, adopted by Fox (Cosmic Fox), and taught all the things about the Universe, interacting with humans and other Animals in the Forest and becoming a force for Good.

Irises

Another little ink and watercolor for a friend

It's nice to dip my hand back into this... been off drawing for a while.  Still knitting on the brown wool scarf, and the orange striped blanket... couple of other irons in the fire to think about.  Finished the book, and onto the next.

Poppies watercolor

saw this arrangement in a magazine and played with my watercolors a little

In the Golden Woods original watercolor

This is something from my 2004 portfolio. It is at the original art shop now.

This is quite large for my work, 16 by 20 inches. I tend to work small and this was a little different. It is also much more colorful than a lot of my art.

It is ink and watercolor with black and gold metallic paint overlays. The 'Golden Woods' is a scene that often comes up in my drawings.. and I'm not certain why I call it that - but it has an air of mythology and the past about it. Sometimes I put myself in the drawings and sometimes not. I sold the drawing 'Fantasy Woods' in October, but it too represented this place where everything is dreamlike.